Job 8
1 And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,
2 “Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
3 Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Doth God pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?
4 If your sons have sinned before Him, And He sends them away, By the hand of their transgression,
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
5 If you seek for God early, And make supplication to the Mighty,
If thou seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
6 If you [are] pure and upright, Surely now He wakes for you, And has completed The habitation of your righteousness.
If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;
7 And your beginning has been small, And your latter end is very great.
And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.
8 For inquire, please, of a former generation, And prepare for a search of their fathers,
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
9 For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
10 Do they not show you—speak to you, And from their heart bring forth words?
Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Does a rush rise without a marsh? A reed increase without water?
Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?
12 While it [is] in its budding—uncropped, Even before any herb it withers.
Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.
13 So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane perishes,
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the profane man's hope shall perish,
14 Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
15 He leans on his house—and it does not stand, He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.
16 He [is] green before the sun, And over his garden his branch goes out.
He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;
17 His roots are wrapped by a heap, He looks for a house of stones.
His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.
18 If [one] destroys him from his place, Then it has feigned concerning him, I have not seen you!
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
19 Behold, this [is] the joy of His way, And from the dust others spring up.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
20 Behold, God does not reject the perfect, Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
Behold, God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.
21 While He fills your mouth with laughter, And your lips with shouting,
Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,
22 Those hating you put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!”
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.
